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	<title>kalebeul &#187; Late Middle</title>
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	<description>anythingarian bubbles and troubles from the land of the sweating hun</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Beware gypsies bearing gods</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/09/14/beware-gypsies-bearing-gods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Barcelona region contained a quite extraordinary wealth of weird medieval religious art until Napoleonic and Marxist visionaries decided to clear the decks to make way for their curious vision of earthly Paradise. One of my favourite survivors is the so-called Santa Majestad/Santa Majestat statue in the parish church of Santa María in Caldes de [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squatter eviction proceedings were first documents in Italian</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/08/31/squatter-eviction-proceedings-were-first-documents-in-italian/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/08/31/squatter-eviction-proceedings-were-first-documents-in-italian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The excellent Mauro Baglieri writes: &#8220;The Placito Capuano or Placito di Capua is the first in a number of acts, also known as Placiti Cassinesi. They were written in early Italian between 960 and 963 A.D. : court proceedings allowing the Benedictines from four abbacies to reclaim their lands from squatters that had occupied them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In praise of toads</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/14/in-praise-of-toads/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/05/14/in-praise-of-toads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 11:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Sandford has left a fascinating comment on this post, which deals with an amusing 19th century literary-historical hoax&#8211;purported correspondence between Ferdinand the Catholic and an esoteric global selection of fellow-monarchs. 
George is family of the alleged editor, Brother Antonio the Goth, and thus of the Christian clan kidnapped by the Moors when they invaded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final victory of the Catalans and Aragonese with their Turkish allies over the Duke of Athens</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/20/final-victory-of-the-catalans-and-aragonese-with-their-turkish-allies-over-the-duke-of-athens/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2008/03/20/final-victory-of-the-catalans-and-aragonese-with-their-turkish-allies-over-the-duke-of-athens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Expedición de Catalanes y Aragoneses al Oriente:
Fué batalla muy terrible y sangrienta, y duró mas el alcance y el matar, que el vencimiento; porque en siendo muerto el Duque, y empantanadas las primeras tropas de la caballería, hubo gran desorden en lo restante del exército enemigo, con que fué facil el rompelle. Ganada tan señalada [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient circular enclosures in northern Spain</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/11/28/ancient-circular-enclosures-in-northern-spain/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/11/28/ancient-circular-enclosures-in-northern-spain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Dry land]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dido and Hengist are remembered as early heroes of isoperimetry for having solved the challenge of maximising the area of a land grant made to them by stringing together strips of oxhide and using the resulting closed superthong to trace, respectively, a semi-circle at Carthage and a full circle at Kaercorrei. 
What was news to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catalan historical revisionism</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/13/catalan-historical-revisionism/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/13/catalan-historical-revisionism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Languages]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Manuel Capdevila occasionally comments here but now has his own blog, Revised Catalonia History, whose goal is to remedy what he believes is the deliberate obfuscation of the Glorious History of the Catalan Nation and its Contribution to Civilisation and create a correct, Catalan-centric view. 
One of his early claims is that the English paper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guy of Warwick</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/05/guy-of-warwick/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/09/05/guy-of-warwick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Guy of Warwick is the original of the soldier-saint Guillem de Varoic in Tirant lo blanc, as Wikipedia surely soon will say. I almost drowned near where he fought the giant Colbrand as a consequence of too much water without and cider within. I hope Xavi will be wary of him.
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		<title>Creative cartography</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/05/07/creative-cartography/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/05/07/creative-cartography/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 10:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Flocks and work animals]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[pictures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I rather like the idea of going up the M6 one day and finding an elephant where Manchester used to be.
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		<title>Hemp horses</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/04/28/hemp-horses/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/04/28/hemp-horses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Flocks and work animals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently the four corners of a square reel used in this Huesca village in hemp yarn production represent four horses bound for France. I wonder which horses these were: those that awaited the Duke of Calabria, when he sought with three others to flee the court of King Ferdinand of Aragon, or others? (If folksy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too hot</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/04/11/too-hot/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/04/11/too-hot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Given the spectacular contribution of Iberian merchants to the spice trade, why is it that none of my local friends will go anywhere near a lamb vindaloo?
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		<title>Ships of fools</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/03/30/ships-of-fools/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/03/30/ships-of-fools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Les bourgeois]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Roads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Scull digs up and burns Foucault in the TLS:
Foucault’s account of the medieval period fares no better in the light of modern scholarship. Its central image is of “the ship of fools”, laden with its cargo of mad souls in search of their reason, floating down the liminal spaces of feudal Europe. It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opportunist orthography</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/03/22/opportunist-orthography/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/03/22/opportunist-orthography/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting bit in a NYT review of David Crystal&#8217;s The Fight For English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left (buy: USA/UK) (via Conversational Reading):
Crystal is &#8230; especially good on the Middle Ages. When printing came to Britain in 1400, English was a merry old mess. Choices had to be made, he says, and typesetters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noncommutative geometry</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/03/05/noncommutative-geometry/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/03/05/noncommutative-geometry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s why I had a bugger of a time trying to imitate with compass, ruler and pencil the more complex designs I dug up after my first trip into parts Islamic. And it&#8217;s got a name that&#8217;s new to me and a whole host of experts, it has. (Via Stefan Geens, and do read the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Early speech balloons</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/01/16/early-speech-balloons/</link>
		<comments>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2007/01/16/early-speech-balloons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Look more like subtitles to me, some of em. (Via Unze Toal)
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		<title>Trial by dog</title>
		<link>http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2006/11/29/trial-by-dog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 06:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another strange French trial: Following his master&#8217;s death in 1371, Aubry de Montdidier&#8217;s dog showed unremitting hostility to his master&#8217;s comrade, Richard de Macaire. Charles V ordered the two to fight, and the dog won, thus proving de Macaire&#8217;s guilt. (Cyclopedia of Universal Biography, via Google Books)
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